… 'Contraband,' by Andrew Cohen: Part of what made America great.
… 'Brief Candle in the Dark': Richard Dawkins' brilliant, fiery, funny memoir.
… Gilbert Gaul's 'Billion-Dollar Ball': The money-madness of college football.
I found this, in the review of Dawkins's memoir, rather amusing: "Dawkins has no time for scientists of 'no great distinction but who happen to be openly devout' …" This from a fellow who has done no serious bench science in more than three decades. Oh, he coined the term meme, but that's as much an article of faith as the Trinity, and has contributed nothing to the science of genetics, which owes its existence to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar. Of course, Mendel actually did science. He didn't just write tendentious books about it.
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